This one sentence uttered by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj during her address to the Unite Nations General Assembly formed the substance of India’s befitting response to the rant of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif when he addressed the Unite Nations General Assembly on September 22.

In her marque style, Swaraj, who addressed the assembly in Hindi, called upon the world community and leaders to identify and isolate the countries and states who give shelter, support, finance, weapons, and training to the terrorists.

Swaraj exhorted for combined efforts to uproot terrorism from the face of the earth, saying that terrorism is not the problem of one or few countries but the entire world.

She brought into play Afghanistan which had raised the same question and concern at this very platform a few days back.

My Firm Advice To Pakistan Is, "Abandon this dream. Jammu & Kashmir is an integral part of India and will always remain so."

She said: As I said at the very beginning, we will be judged by our action and equally by our inaction. What goals have we achieved and what objectives remain unfulfilled?

We have in fact attempted a paradigm of friendship during the last two years which is without precedent. We conveyed Eid greetings to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, wished success to his cricket team, extended good wishes for his health and well-being. Did all this come with pre-conditions attached?

We took the initiative to resolve issues not on the basis of conditions, but on the basis of friendship. And what did we get in return? Pathankot, Bahadur Ali, and Uri. Bahadur Ali is a terrorist in our custody, whose confession is a living proof of Pakistan's complicity in cross-border terror.

The Prime Minister of Pakistan also said that India has placed pre-conditions for talks which are not acceptable to him. What pre-conditions?

Did we impose any pre-condition before extending an invitation for the oath-taking ceremony of our government? Did we impose any pre-condition when I went to Islamabad for the Heart of Asia conference and agreed to begin the Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue? Did we impose any pre-condition when Prime Minister Modi travelled from Kabul to Lahore? What pre-conditions?

This one sentence uttered by External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj during her address to the Unite Nations General Assembly formed the substance of India’s befitting response to the rant of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif when he addressed the Unite Nations General Assembly on September 22.

In her marque style, Swaraj, who addressed the assembly in Hindi, called upon the world community and leaders to identify and isolate the countries and states who give shelter, support, finance, weapons, and training to the terrorists.

Swaraj exhorted for combined efforts to uproot terrorism from the face of the earth, saying that terrorism is not the problem of one or few countries but the entire world.

She brought into play Afghanistan which had raised the same question and concern at this very platform a few days back. My Firm Advice To Pakistan Is, "Abandon this dream. Jammu & Kashmir is an integral part of India and will always remain so."

She said: As I said at the very beginning, we will be judged by our action and equally by our inaction. What goals have we achieved and what objectives remain unfulfilled?

We have in fact attempted a paradigm of friendship during the last two years which is without precedent. We conveyed Eid greetings to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, wished success to his cricket team, extended good wishes for his health and well-being. Did all this come with pre-conditions attached?

We took the initiative to resolve issues not on the basis of conditions, but on the basis of friendship. And what did we get in return? Pathankot, Bahadur Ali, and Uri. Bahadur Ali is a terrorist in our custody, whose confession is a living proof of Pakistan's complicity in cross-border terror.

The Prime Minister of Pakistan also said that India has placed pre-conditions for talks which are not acceptable to him. What pre-conditions?

Did we impose any pre-condition before extending an invitation for the oath-taking ceremony of our government? Did we impose any pre-condition when I went to Islamabad for the Heart of Asia conference and agreed to begin the Comprehensive Bilateral Dialogue? Did we impose any pre-condition when Prime Minister Modi travelled from Kabul to Lahore? What pre-conditions?

I can only say that those accusing others of human rights violations would do well to introspect and see what egregious abuses they are perpetrating in their own country, including in Balochistan.

What Did Nawaz Sharif Say During His Address At UN General Assembly

Raking up Kashmir at the UN, Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif glorified slain Hizbul commander Burhan Wani as a "young leader" even as he expressed readiness for a "serious and sustained dialogue" with India for peaceful resolution of all outstanding disputes, especially Jammu and Kashmir.

Sharif devoted much of his 20-minute speech at the UN General Assembly session to Kashmir and the current situation in the valley and said Pakistan "fully supports the demand of the Kashmiri people for self determination". He demanded an "independent inquiry into the extra-judicial killings" and a UN fact-finding mission to Kashmir "so that those guilty of these atrocities are punished."

Insisting that peace and normalisation between Pakistan and India cannot be achieved without a resolution of the Kashmir dispute, Sharif made a number of allegations with regard to the current unrest in the valley. India has blamed Pakistan for engineering and fuelling the unrest.

While talking about the situation in Kashmir, the Pakistan Prime Minister referred to Wani, who was killed in an encounter with security forces on July 8, as a "young leader" and said he has "emerged as the symbol of the latest Kashmiri Intifada, a popular and peaceful freedom movement..."Sharif said the "Indian brutalities are well documented" and that "Pakistan will share with the Secretary General a dossier containing detailed information and evidence of the gross and systematic violations of human rights committed" in Jammu and Kashmir.

"The Security Council has called for the exercise of the right to self-determination by the people of Jammu and Kashmir through a free and fair plebiscite held under UN auspices. The people of Kashmir have waited 70 years for implementation of this promise," he said, adding the Security Council must honour its commitments by implementing its own decisions.

Sharif, who spoke amid heightening tensions between India and Pakistan, insisted that his country wants peace with the neighbour as "confrontation should not be our destiny in South Asia."The Pakistan Prime Minister claimed that he had "gone the extra mile to achieve this, repeatedly offering a dialogue to address all outstanding issues but India has posed unacceptable preconditions to engage in a dialogue.

"Let us be clear: talks are no favor to Pakistan. Talks are in the interest of both countries. They are essential to resolve our differences, especially the Jammu and Kashmir dispute, and to avert the danger of any escalation." While insisting that peace and normalization between Pakistan and India cannot be achieved without a resolution of the Kashmir dispute, he said, "This is an objective evaluation, not a partisan position."

"Today, from this rostrum, I would also like to reiterate our offer to India to enter into a serious and sustained dialogue for the peaceful resolution of all outstanding disputes, especially Jammu and Kashmir," Sharif said.

He also said that Pakistan was "open to discussing all measures of restraint and responsibility with India, in any forum or format and without any conditions." Pakistan is "ready for talks to agree on a bilateral nuclear test ban treaty," he added.Claiming that Pakistan "neither wants, nor is engaged in an arms race with India", Sharif said, "We have consistently urged the conclusion of bilateral arms control and disarmament measures between Pakistan and India to prevent conflict and avoid wasteful military expenditures."